The Rhode Island Department of Corrections is taking new steps to combat the growing problem of synthetic drugs inside its ...

Leonard Jefferson was incarcerated in Rhode Island Maximum Security Prison for nearly two decades. From 1973 to 1985 and from 2014 to 2019, he experienced the state’s prison system from the inside, ...

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She also explained that the Rhode Island Women’s Facility is incredibly expensive and ill-suited to the population. There are currently around 80 women in the facility, which was originally designed ...

Including women, there were 3,060 inmates were in Rhode Island’s prisons on March 15, or 76.7-percent of capacity. Those rates have been falling in recent years from 83.6 percent in 2013 to 80.6 ...

Muslim inmates at a Rhode Island prison are accusing facility leadership of religious discrimination by withholding access to some of their religious practices, according to a lawsuit.. The ...

In a windowless classroom at the John J. Moran medium-security prison in Cranston, R.I., three men sit around a table to share how and when they began using opioids. For Josh, now 39, it was when ...